Obama claims Trump 'did not solve' immigration 'problem.' The numbers tell a different story

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Obama claims Trump 'did not solve' immigration 'problem.' The numbers tell a different story
Obama made false claims about illegal immigration levels under Trump compared to Harris
 By Chris Pandolfo Fox News
Published October 23, 2024 8:20am EDT

Former President Barack Obama stumped for Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Detroit on Tuesday, where he asserted that her Republican rival, former President Trump, failed to address the immigration "problem."

Immigration consistently polls as a top issue for voters in the 2024 election. The Biden-Harris administration has come under withering attack from Trump for reversing his border policies and permitting record high numbers of migrants to cross the southern border unlawfully.

At a rally for the Harris-Walz ticket, Obama acknowledged that "immigration is a real issue at our borders." But he pushed back on criticism of Harris for neglecting to address rampant illegal immigration in her four years as vice president and claimed that Trump's promise to start "the largest mass deportation in the history of our country" isn't a real plan.

"Wasn't Donald Trump president for four years?" Obama said. "Wasn't he in charge before you? If rounding up and deporting millions of desperate people, many of them who are women and children, if that's the answer to everything, why is it that the number of undocumented immigrants basically stayed the same when he left office?"

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[DefiantMassRINO]

When Trump was President, my local motels weren't 100% full with illegal immigrants and Massachusetts was not spending billion$ to care for them.

[The_Reader_David]

Solve, no.  Ameliorate, yes.  Not exacerbate (as has Biden-Harris), yes.  But solve, no.  That would have required completing strengthening the border and making our immigration system for legal immigration more efficient and sensible, which would have required the cooperation of Congress.